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Re: (meteorobs) Hot Meteorite
All of the things you are postulating are hypothetical and have nothing
to do with anyone's experience to my knowledge.
Ed Cannon wrote:
> I know it would be rare, but in certain cases when bolides
> explode in the lower atmosphere, it would seem to be possible
> for larger fragments to reach the ground while still hot or at
> least warm. In order for it to explode, wouldn't the bolide
> have to be significantly permeated by heat? Also, the
> fragments would fall only relatively short distances of a few
> thousand meters rather than tens of kilometers. Obviously one
> other necessary combination of factors is that the event be
> witnessed and the witnesses reach the impact site very rapidly
> -- a rare but not impossible scenario, it seems to me.
>
> Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
> http://wwwvms.utexasdot edu/~ecannon/meteorlinks.html
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